'A Man of Gret Auctorite' : The Search for Truth in Textual Authority in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame

Author / Editor
Clifford, Robert.

Title
'A Man of Gret Auctorite' : The Search for Truth in Textual Authority in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame

Published
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 81.1: 155-65, 1999.

Description
Examines Chaucer's use of the dream-vision genre and authoritative texts and suggests that the author "deconstructs any sense of textual authority." The process of granting fame in HF parallels the random process of readers granting authority.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.